14.00-17.00

Registration

17.15-17.30

Welcome

Chairperson:

Ana Moore

17.30-18.10

L 1

Tito Scaiano (Canada)

Tuning plasmon transitions and their applications in organic photochemistry

18.10-18.50

L 2

Fernando Sigoli (Brazil)

Rare earth doped luminescent materials: oxides, complexes and hybrid matrices

18.50-19.30

L 3

Alexandre Brolo (Canada)

Plasmonic Materials for Biosensing and Enhanced Spectroscopy

20.00-22.00

Conference Reception

Chairperson:

Jean Cadet

8.30-9.10

L 4

Luisa De Cola (Germany)

Luminescent soft and hard assemblies

9.10-9.50

L 5

Guillermo Bazán (USA)

Design, synthesis and processing of narrow band gap organic semiconductors for solar cell fabrication

9.50-10.30

L 6

Alan Aspuru (USA)

Finding renewable energy materials using one screensaver at a time: Combinatorial quantum chemistry for organic photovoltaics.

10.30-10.50

Coffee Break

Chairperson:

Andrés Thomas

10.50-11.30

L 7

Claudio Borsarelli (Argentina)

Photochemistry of sensitizers in macromolecular systems: from humic acids to proteins

11.30-12.10

L 8

Richard Cogdell (UK)

How purple photosynthetic bacteria harvest solar energy.

12.10-12.50

L 9

Linda Johnston (Canada)

Fluorescence imaging on the nanoscale

13.00-15.30

Lunch

Chairperson:

Claudia Turro

15.30-16.10

L 10

Cilento Prize Conference

María Laura Dántola

Production and quenching of reactive oxygen species by pterin derivatives.

16.10-16.50

L 11

Bruno Robert (France)

Molecular basis of photoprotection in photosynthetic organisms

16.50-17.30

L 12

James Mc Cusker

Identifying Reaction Coordinates for Ultrafast Excited-state Dynamics.

17.30-18.00

Coffee Break

18.00-21.00

Poster session 1

Chairperson:

Bruce Armitage

8.30-9.10

L 13

Closs Prize Conference

Kevin Stamplekoskie

Using the Surface Plasmon Absorption of Silver Nanoparticles to a Maximum.

9.10-9.50

L 14

Michael Hoffmann (USA)

Artificial photosynthesis via the photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic reduction of CO2 with the simultaneous production of H2

9.50-10.30

L 15

Gustavo Argüello (Argentina)

Gas-phase photochemistry. Laboratory studies of peroxynitrates

10.30-10.50

Coffee Break

Chairperson:

Enrique San Román

10.50-11.30

L 16

Daniel Mártire (Argentina)

The employment of humic substances in photochemical experiments. micro- and nano-heterogeneous systems

11.30-12.10

L 17

Chad Jafvert (USA)

Sunlight-mediated reactions involving C60 and functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes in the aquatic environment.

12.10-12.50

L 18

Marcelo Gehlen (Brazil)

Photoinduced intramolecular charge-transfer in dyes and in conjugated polymer end-capped with electron acceptor.

13.00-15.30

Lunch

Chairperson:

Elsa Abuin

15.30-16.10

L 19

Josef Michl (USA)

Designed Singlet Fission as a Possible Tool in Photovoltaics.

16.10-16.50

L 20

Richard Weiss (USA)

What controls the fates of pyrenyl singlet states and benzylic triplet radical pairs in the melted and glassy states of poly(alkyl methacrylate)s?

16.50-17.30

L 21

Alexis Aspee (Chile)

Photo-induced free radicals for the study of antioxidants behavior in complex biological systems.

17.30-18.10

L 22

Sergio Bonesi (Argentina)

Application of Photochemical Reactions in Organic Syntheses. Photo-Fries rearrangement, photoreduction and photooxidation reactions.

18.10-18.40

Coffee Break

18.40-21.30

Poster session 2

Chairperson:

Mauricio Baptista

8.30-9.10

L 23

Alicia Peñéñory (Argentina)

Photoinduced electron transfer chemistry: mechanism and applications in organochalcogenide synthesis.

9.10-9.50

L 24

Carlos Silva (Canada)

The mechanism of efficient charge photogeneration in semicrystalline polymeric semiconductors

9.50-10.30

L 25

Dwayner Miller (Canada)

Making the molecular movie: first frames...coming features.

10.30-10.50

Coffee Break

Chairperson:

Carolina Lorente

10.50-11.30

L 26

Teresa Atvars (Brazil)

Morphology of Polymer Blends in Electroluminescent Devices.

11.30-12.10

L 27

Ksenija Glusak (USA)

Photochemical and electrochemical behavior of flavin derivatives.

12.10-12.50

L 28

Víctor Batista (USA)

Studies of oxomanganese complexes for natural and artificial photosynthesis.

12.50-15.30

Lunch

Chairperson:

Silvia Braslavsky

15.00-15.40

L 29

Germán Günther (Chile)

Sucrose Monoesters and microheterogeneous systems.

15.40-16.20

L 30

Luis Otero (Argentina)

Development of Supramolecular Dyes with Application in Optoelectronics.

16.20-17.00

L 31

Gerald Meyer (USA)

Solar Energy Conversion with Molecules

17.00-17.30

Coffee Break

17.30-20.30

Poster session 3

21.30-

Conference Dinner and party